Plotting

The British Aerospace Structural liaison guy, Ian South, was part of our extended family in Long Beach for a short while, he was there because the T45TS was a derivative of the Hawk Trainer aircraft, made famous by the British aerobatic team, the Red Arrows.

APPH were in on the project because of their association with the Hawk and probably an aggressive proposal, one of the reasons why they would have preferred if we had Kraft dinner for supper instead of a reinforcing steak.

I sat down with Ian and we talked, at length, about the American experience and what we could do about it all, I say "we" because I think that Ian had already pondered the variables and it seemed that the skills that we had obtained from our work experience and engineering qualifications would be more than adequate to secure a job.

That's quite a long sentence to indicate that I thought I would be a "shoe in" whatever that means.

The conversation continued the following day, we talked in O'Keefes by the Marina, then later at Hof's Hut and eventually put the world to rights at the Jolly Roger until the early hours of the following morning, when they had to throw us out.